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Pratt & Whitney is an American aerospace manufacturer with global service operations. [2] It is a subsidiary of RTX Corporation (formerly Raytheon Technologies). Pratt & Whitney's aircraft engines are widely used in both civil aviation (especially airliners) and military aviation. Its headquarters are in East Hartford, Connecticut. [3]
The Advanced Turbine Engine Company (ATEC) is an American aerospace joint venture created in 2006. A project of Honeywell International Inc. and Pratt & Whitney, ATEC was formed to compete for a government contract to create a 3,000 shaft horsepower engine to replace the existing 2,000 shaft horsepower T700 engine powering the U.S. Army's Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk and Boeing AH-64 Apache ...
The Pratt & Whitney PW1000G family, also marketed as the Pratt & Whitney GTF (geared turbofan), is a family of high-bypass geared turbofan produced by Pratt & Whitney. Following years of development and testing on various demonstrators, the program officially launched in 2008 with the PW1200G destined for the Mitsubishi SpaceJet (a project that ...
Local advocacy group Reject Raytheon Asheville has protested the new Pratt & Whitney factory since 2020 but now is moving to other tactics.
The company currently employs around 2,000 people in Muscogee County and is set to significantly grow that number with this expansion.
UTC Selling Pratt & Whitney Power Systems Unit to Mitsubishi. Rich Smith, The Motley Fool. Updated July 14, 2016 at 9:43 PM.
During 2011, both Rolls-Royce and Pratt & Whitney proposed establishing a new joint venture to develop engines for future generation mid-size aircraft (120-230 passengers); [16] however, during late 2013, it was announced that the two firms had decided to forego such a collaboration in favour of their own independent operations. [17]
Pratt & Whitney R-2180-E Twin Wasp E The Pratt & Whitney R-4360 Wasp Major is an American 28-cylinder four-row radial piston aircraft engine designed and built during World War II . At 4,362.5 cu in (71.5 L), it is the largest-displacement aviation piston engine to be mass-produced in the United States, and at 4,300 hp (3,200 kW) the most powerful.